Turkish Lira Support in future

[Rust In Peace]

Hello all.

I'm not here for crying about the situation. I can totally understand behaviour behind this decision. Volatile currency, extra commission when you try to buy dollars etc etc.

I wonder what will happen in the future if the Turkish economy returns to normal? I don't want to talk politics, but there has been inflation every 20 years in Turkey's history. It's hard to believe but Turkish economy had worse days than this.

Will Steam supports again the Turkish Lira in future if Turkey's economy gets normal? I couldn't find any evidence about this. In the Steam's history, is there any example for this situation?

Thanks!

[Kage Goomba]

If your countries currency recovers - you have nothing to worry about.

People keep forgetting its to do with the exchange rate...the prices didn't change.
Just your currencies value plummeting.

So if it (your currency) goes back up - things will normalize again.

[Scy]

yeah, I bet they would reverse the decision but ...

protip : this country's economy will NEVER recover without a complete government change

[Kage Goomba]

Originally posted by Scy:

yeah, I bet they would reverse the decision but ...

protip : this country's economy will NEVER recover

The only thing that happened was Steam changing the denomination to USD - which confuses the hell out of people and makes it worse - the price didn't really change.
Just now you have to calculate it out.

Now that said - Dev's are free to change the prices in your region.
Steam is just the store front - so reach out to your dev's to ask for lower prices.

As for the rest - well its just sucky all around.

[Scy]

Originally posted by Kage Goomba:

Originally posted by Scy:

yeah, I bet they would reverse the decision but ...

protip : this country's economy will NEVER recover

The only thing that happened was Steam changing the denomination to USD - which confuses the hell out of people and makes it worse - the price didn't really change.
Just now you have to calculate it out.

Now that said - Dev's are free to change the prices in your region.
Steam is just the store front - so reach out to your dev's to ask for lower prices.

As for the rest - well its just sucky all around.

Man, you've been on my ass since yesterday. I'm not even saying you're wrong, you're just way off topic.

[Kage Goomba]

Originally posted by Scy:

Originally posted by Kage Goomba:

The only thing that happened was Steam changing the denomination to USD - which confuses the hell out of people and makes it worse - the price didn't really change.
Just now you have to calculate it out.

Now that said - Dev's are free to change the prices in your region.
Steam is just the store front - so reach out to your dev's to ask for lower prices.

As for the rest - well its just sucky all around.

Man, you've been on my ass since yesterday. I'm not even saying you're wrong, you're just way off topic.

It would help if you actually bothered to read and figure things out for yourself.
That's on you if you can't.

[Rust In Peace]

Originally posted by Kage Goomba:

If your countries currency recovers - you have nothing to worry about.

People keep forgetting its to do with the exchange rate...the prices didn't change.
Just your currencies value plummeting.

So if it (your currency) goes back up - things will normalize again.

I'm not expecting it'll goes up, instead stops the losing value. We had already the equals to dollar prices before the finishing the Turkish Lira support. I think that wasn't the problem. The real problem is, dollarization in Turkey is really strong because of losing value of the money. That's why, they've created a new commission if you want to buy dollar. It's %1 but especially companies like Steam, it's huge.

Originally posted by Scy:

yeah, I bet they would reverse the decision but ...

protip : this country's economy will NEVER recover without a complete government change

I agree. Our president is really hard to understand especially if you compare with any European president. Because of his politics and stubbornnes, Turkish Lira lost 5x value in 2 years. It's hard to understand but he won the elections last year. Again...

[AmsterdamHeavy]

Your economy hasnt been "normal" in decades. This latest version of your currency lasted like 15 years before ending up in this state.

[Kage Goomba]

Originally posted by Rust In Peace:

Originally posted by Kage Goomba:

If your countries currency recovers - you have nothing to worry about.

People keep forgetting its to do with the exchange rate...the prices didn't change.
Just your currencies value plummeting.

So if it (your currency) goes back up - things will normalize again.

I'm not expecting it'll goes up, instead stops the losing value. We had already the equals to dollar prices before the finishing the Turkish Lira support. I think that wasn't the problem. The real problem is, dollarization in Turkey is really strong because of losing value of the money. That's why, they've created a new commission if you want to buy dollar. It's %1 but especially companies like Steam, it's huge.

Yeah I just looked up the exchange rate - ouch is all I can say.

Not sure how people are going to survive in the next year with all the crap that's going on.

While people are screaming over games - they keep forgetting that this impacts everything else - even turkey depends on imports.

You have my sympathies for what it's worth.

[Rust In Peace]

Originally posted by Kage Goomba:

Originally posted by Rust In Peace:

I'm not expecting it'll goes up, instead stops the losing value. We had already the equals to dollar prices before the finishing the Turkish Lira support. I think that wasn't the problem. The real problem is, dollarization in Turkey is really strong because of losing value of the money. That's why, they've created a new commission if you want to buy dollar. It's %1 but especially companies like Steam, it's huge.

Yeah I just looked up the exchange rate - ouch is all I can say.

Not sure how people are going to survive in the next year with all the crap that's going on.

While people are screaming over games - they keep forgetting that this impacts everything else - even turkey depends on imports.

You have my sympathies for what it's worth.

I was in Lebanon 1 year ago, you could check the exchange rate. But you have to check black market prices instead of official prices. When I was there, it was 20k and ppl couldn't find any electricity. Right now it's almost 100k and I can't think about the situation right there.

At least, In Turkey, you can find everything. But it's too expensive. I'm a software engineer, think about if I'm saying too much things about prices...

[Spawn of Totoro]

Originally posted by Kage Goomba:

The only thing that happened was Steam changing the denomination to USD - which confuses the hell out of people and makes it worse - the price didn't really change.
Just now you have to calculate it out.

Actually, a lot of developers didn't update their prices in those regions, so Valve defaulted it to the US, USD prices. It wasn't a conversion of their currency to USD, so that made a huge increase for many games right out the gate.

So a 500 Lira game went from $17.34 USD if directly converted to $60 USD, US price. Numbers are as an example only.

But yes, it is a developer issue as they either misread what was going on (some seem to have summed a direct conversion), didn't read it at all or don't care and let it be.

[Melodia]

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

But yes, it is a developer issue as they either misread what was going on (some seem to have summed a direct conversion), didn't read it at all or don't care and let it be.

This does seem to be the case
https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/180bdsf/insane_comparison_prices_of_argentinan_steam/ka50pck/

[Kage Goomba]

Originally posted by Rust In Peace:

Originally posted by Kage Goomba:

Yeah I just looked up the exchange rate - ouch is all I can say.

Not sure how people are going to survive in the next year with all the crap that's going on.

While people are screaming over games - they keep forgetting that this impacts everything else - even turkey depends on imports.

You have my sympathies for what it's worth.

I was in Lebanon 1 year ago, you could check the exchange rate. But you have to check black market prices instead of official prices. When I was there, it was 20k and ppl couldn't find any electricity. Right now it's almost 100k and I can't think about the situation right there.

At least, In Turkey, you can find everything. But it's too expensive. I'm a software engineer, think about if I'm saying too much things about prices...

Its so easy for people to take things for granted it seems.
Incident Response Analyst/Incident Commander here (I'm the IT Geek watching you from the Tower waiting to hit the panic button and herd cats to fix said software when it breaks)

[ZZZZZ]

even if ur current government gets replaced.. steam takes ages to change literally anything.. same as they took ages to remove turkish lira while people complained about it for years.. if inflation would drop to 0 tomorrow it will most likely take 2years for valve to change it

[Sandyclawz]

Originally posted by ZZZZZ:

even if ur current government gets replaced.. steam takes ages to change.. same as they took ages to remove turkish lira while people complained about it for years

Eh don't worry, proests will die down when people realize it doesn't do anything.